435 - Research Update: Sex and Gender Differences and COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Virologist Dr. Sabra Klein returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what research has seen regarding COVID-19 outcomes for men and women. They discuss what's known now about sex (biological) and gender (social and contextual) differences in COVID-19 infection and vaccination, and why these variables are so important to consider in research and policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.5 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to |
| 0:47.8 | Dr. Sabra Klein, a biologist at Johns Hopkins who studies sex differences. They discuss the biological, social, and behavioral reasons |
| 0:57.1 | why men are more likely to have worse COVID-19 outcomes than women. Let's listen. |
| 1:03.9 | Sabra Klein, thanks so much for joining me. Thank you so much for inviting me again, Stephanie. |
| 1:09.7 | Today I wanted to talk about, you know, your area of |
| 1:12.9 | expertise, which I know is in sex differences in general. But here we are talking two years into |
| 1:20.1 | COVID. And I'm curious what we have learned about the differences in men and women and how the disease impacts them. |
| 1:30.4 | So could you start with sort of telling us a little bit about, you know, give us the landscape? |
| 1:34.6 | Okay. |
| 1:35.0 | So the landscape is still that across diverse countries, including the United States, |
| 1:41.4 | and including with variance of concern, we still see more men |
| 1:47.7 | being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19. |
| 1:53.1 | So that difference has remained the same over these two years. |
| 1:59.3 | What we are also starting to see, though, as we're at, you know, well into this, |
| 2:04.3 | and we're starting to talk about long COVID, which its official term is post-acute sequelae of |
| 2:10.3 | COVID, we're actually finding it's women who are more likely to have the symptoms of long COVID, you know, including the brain fog, the fatigue, |
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